I had one of the best mornings in my life today!

I covered the rally to build category 5 levees that was held in the quarter today (coinciding with President Bush's visit to NOLA) for my Katrina doc. I was truly energized by the experience ( Read more... )

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... but you sometimes have to haggle.

I'm dealing with Discmakers in duplicating the Mardi Gras DVD. We talked on the phone then they emailed me a quote. If I had simply said "OK" I'd be paying $300 more and would receive the DVDs a week late. I had to actually say "well on your site it says..." several times. Their response "oh! that's a new ( Read more... )

Remember the grant I slaved over... and how I didn't take it as well as I could have when I didn't get it?

Well... last night I got a surprise phone call from Desire NOLA telling me I had received a grant for almost exactly the same amount of cash as the denied grant ( Read more... )

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I just received my first PRE-order of the Mardi Gras DVD from my website.

Thanks, thisvintagegirl for setting up the online shop!

Here are some screen shots of the footage I shot in the Bywater yesterday. I love these paintings. They line an alley leading to a small building where VooDoo ceremonies are held. It's amazing to me that these are the real deal... like most art in New Orleans, this is authentic.


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A welcome card and a big thank you... without a doubt i have the best best friends on the planet!

I'm back in New Orleans for a while... today I shot some B roll in the Bywater and interviewed Irvin Mayfield in Armstrong Park for the Katrina Doc.


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Yes, the craziness of some, actually nearly all, popular religious thought has nearly driven me crazy more than once through the years. And with the rise of the religious right, and all forms of fundamentalisms in the world, we hear and will hear a lot more of this kind of thing, I fear.That was an excerpt from a letter sent to me by my childhood ( Read more... )